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So, I can understand the hate towards copyright enforcement bots, but... did TurnItIn hammer the shit out of VLC's website? Or do VLC's developers just hate the
by kmeisthax 5y ago
So, I can understand the hate towards copyright enforcement bots, but... did TurnItIn hammer the shit out of VLC's website? Or do VLC's developers just hate the idea of automated enforcement in general?
(I doubt they're pro-plagiarism - not even copyright abolitionists go that far.)
- KennyBlanken 5y agoI imagine the objection is that it is consuming bandwidth, electricity, and computing capacity of an open source project as part of a profit-making service, with an extra fuck-you of a)crawling the site making no sense whatsoever for the service and b)the service being of no possible use to VLC or its users
- jrochkind1 5y ago> consuming bandwidth, electricity, and computing capacity of an open source project as part of a profit-making service, And yet they don't disallow Googlebot! For obvious reasons.